More often it’s like “I really don’t want to argue about religion. What answer will persuade them to go away?”
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I hope one of the SpaceX team snuck a teapot on the launch that delivered the Tesla. Give the James Webb people something different to focus on for a while.
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Y’know, actually I’m not.
Ironically, I fully believe in some higher power that’s greater than myself which somehow connects us all… I just don’t think it’s some colossal asshole in the sky who’s just as flawed, vindictive and petty as most humans are…
Frankly I am not egotistical enough to think that I alone can label or accurately define omnipotence or that everyone else should believe as I do simply because of how I feel. I also have no proof, but I am at peace with my ‘known unknown’, and I don’t begrudge anyone else their belief or disbelief.
The only time I have a problem is when zealots try to have their unproven beliefs enshrined into law and policy that affects everyone.
Then it becomes a fighting matter.
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Could you maybe describe it as an energy field? Maybe created by all living things. Something that surrounds us and penetrates us, maybe binding the galaxy together?
(I kid. I kid because I love)
Give it a name if you must.
There’s actually a really good nonfiction book called the Field which addresses that idea.
Go ahead; again, I am not threatened by others believing differently than I do, or by them not believing at all.
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Sadly, so many other people in this world are… on any number of issues, too, not just religion. So many people just unwilling to live and let live.
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I know, and it both saddens me and pisses me off; live and let live, it’s really NOT that fucking hard…
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To be clear, I have no problem with The Force. The Jedi have always been the problem. So I think we are cool
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It’s like it never even occurs to them:
SMH
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I think god only intervene’s in american sporting events these days…
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Do they? Do “they” really owe us anything?
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I think that even no explanation is probably better than “A wizard did it”
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I think even the Big Bang is too much
Cosmic Inflation is totally “a wizard did it”
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I forget who said it (maybe Sean Carrol, but maybe not), but it was something like “We don’t really know yet why there is something rather than nothing, and we may never know. But we know there is definitely something, so let’s study that and not worry about the rest of it right now”
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Maybe someone should ask Georges Lemaître?
80 years ago atheists were ridiculing the idea of the Big Bang on the grounds that it was religious nonsense, and supported the steady state model instead.
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No, but in order for me to accept that nothing else was involved, God, space aliens, spaghetti, whatever, it would be helpful to know how something from nothing happened.
That’s not on them, the science people, but it would be helpful.
If the science people can’t explain something from nothing and the religious people can’t explain where God came from. Then it really is down to faith.
That’s for me of course and what I need.
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They’re not negotiating with us
They’re not going to change the mathematical model to appease people who don’t “believe” it
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Why though? In all of recorded history, and for all of the future that I can imagine, the answer to that question has no impact whatsoever on anyone or anything. It would be interesting, sure, but not knowing that changes nothing. The observable world is exactly the same, we should still try to live the best lives that we can and treat each other well. We should make the most of the time that we know we have alive.
The thing that has had an impact (I personally feel a negative one) is people trying to jump the gun and come up with an answer to that question without any basis in observable, testable reality. Even though it really doesn’t matter
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